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Architecture after God

Babel Resurgent

By: Kyle Dugdale

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Architecture after God A vivid retelling of the biblical story of Babel leads from the contested site of Babylon to the soaring towers of the modern metropolis, and sets the bright hopes of early modernism against the shadows of gathering war. Dealing in structural metaphor, utopian aspiration, and geopolitical ambition, Dugdale exposes the inexorable architectural implications of the event described by Nietzsche as the death of God. The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics. Critical reappraisal of early modernism Based on the fable The Emperor and the Architect (1924) by Uriel Birnbaum New volume in the Exploring Architecture series

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Birkhäuser

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3035625026

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9783035625028

Making a Mass Institution

Indianapolis and the American High School

By: Kyle P. Steele

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Making a Mass Institution

Indianapolis and the American High School

By: Kyle P. Steele

Indianapolis began its secondary system with a singular, decidedly academic high school, but ended the 1960s with multiple high schools with numerous paths to graduation. Making a Mass Institution describes how this process created both a distinct youth culture and a divided and unjust system, one that effectively sorted students geographically, economically, and racially.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978814399

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9781978814394

Decomposed

The Political Ecology of Music

By: Kyle Devine

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Decomposed

The Political Ecology of Music

By: Kyle Devine

The hidden material histories of music. Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a significant exploiter of both natural and human resources, and that its reliance on these resources is more problematic today than ever before. Devine uncovers the hidden history of recorded music—what recordings are made of and what happens to them when they are disposed of. Devine's story focuses on three forms of materiality. Before 1950, 78 rpm records were made of shellac, a bug-based resin. Between 1950 and 2000, formats such as LPs, cassettes, and CDs were all made of petroleum-based plastic. Today, recordings exist as data-based audio files. Devine describes the people who harvest and process these materials, from women and children in the Global South to scientists and industrialists in the Global North. He reminds us that vinyl records are oil products, and that the so-called vinyl revival is part of petrocapitalism. The supposed immateriality of music as data is belied by the energy required to power the internet and the devices required to access music online. We tend to think of the recordings we buy as finished products. Devine offers an essential backstory. He reveals how a range of apparently peripheral people and processes are actually central to what music is, how it works, and why it matters.

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329

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MIT Press

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0262355558

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9780262355551

The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

By: K. Kyle

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The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

By: K. Kyle

As with his critically acclaimed book on Suez, Keith Kyle revisits as a scholar ground that he first covered as a print and television journalist. After three introductory chapters covering the years 1895-1957, the core of the book examines in lively detail how Kenya moved from Mau Mau trauma to national freedom. The immediacy of the eye-witness, which older readers will remember from television reports, is now combined with the fruits of reflection and meticulous archival research to create a unique authoritative study of this vital period for Kenya, for Africa and for the British Empire.

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Springer

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023037770X

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9780230377707

Architecture after God

Babel Resurgent

By: Kyle Dugdale

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Architecture after God

Babel Resurgent

By: Kyle Dugdale

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Architecture after God

Architecture after God

Making a Mass Institution

Making a Mass Institution

Decomposed

Decomposed

The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

Architecture after God

Architecture after God

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